Nova Launcher has been acquired by analytics company Branch
www.androidpolice.com
Hopefully, this isn’t the end of an era for Android launchers

Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I’m posting anew for visibility.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    I used smart launcher right up until they pushed an update one day that made my phone basically unusable. The launcher would just error whenever I went to my home screen, making the launcher (and thus home screen completely unusable).

    After that I changed my 5 star review to 1 star, uninstalled, and there is absolutely nothing they can do to ever get me to trust them again.

    Failing that hard at QA on something as critical as a phone launcher is completely unacceptable to me.

    If you want evidence, look at reviews from Jan 2022 on smart launcher 6.

    • WashedOverEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      That really sucks. It would be brutal to get that sorted. I’ve been lucky. I do recall once there was a botched update that reset all my custom settings on all of my devices. I was really choked but I had a old backup that restored it halfway. Reminds me to do another one now.

      My huawei devices keeps reseting my launcher to theirs which is s really annoying but I think that is a Huawei thing.

    • 0oWow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Google fails that hard on QA all the time. Perhaps iOS would work for you?